OLIPHANT: The Collected Writings of Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897)

Part 3

An important source for literature, women's studies and gender studies, Part 3 covers 31 titles in 73 volumes. The Ladies Lindores (1883), a story of two sisters who are due to be married off, is a study in angst and mental cruelty, and reveals Oliphant’s understanding of the difficulties of women’s lives. Kirsteen (1890) portrays a woman who is forced to choose between a career or a traditional family life - and chooses her career. After reading A beleaguered city: a story of the seen and unseen (1880), Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to Oliphant, "I have cried heartily; I feel the better for my tears, and I want to thank you."

Some of the titles featured include: 

 - The primrose path: a chapter in the annals of the Kingdom of Fife, 1878
  - A beleaguered city: a story of the seen and unseen, 1880
 - In trust: the story of a lady and her lover, 1882
  - It was a lover and his lass, 1883
  - The wizard's son: a novel, 1884
  - The mystery of Mrs Blencarrow, 1890
  - A country gentleman and his family, 1886
  - Kirsteen: the story of a Scotch family seventy years ago, 1890
  - The Duke's Daughter, and The fugitives, 1890
  - Diana Trelawny: the history of a great mistake, 1892